Sneak preview: 2022/23 Moguls & Aerials World Cup

There is still more than eight weeks left before the world’s best moguls & aerials athletes will officially kick off the World Cup campaign in December, but before we get there let’s take a quick look at what’s to come in a highly anticipated 2022/23 season.

The 2022/23 World Cup calendar features a total of 37 competitions at nine locations spread over eight different countries including six moguls, six dual moguls, six aerials and one aerials mixed team event.

For the 13th straight time, also this year the 2022/22 FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup season will get underway in the first week of December in Ruka (FIN), where moguls and aerials competition will get the ball rolling on December 3-4.

After that it’s over to Sweden for both moguls and dual moguls competitions on December 10-11 at Idre Fjall. Then the final competition of December will come at Alpe d’Huez, as the French resort, which made its freestyle World Cup debut last season, is looking to host another pair of moguls and dual moguls events on December 16-17.

After the holiday break, the freestyle tour will jump over to North America, first to Le Relais (CAN) with back-to-back aerials competitions on January 21-22, and then to Val St Come (CAN) with moguls and dual moguls events on January 27-28. After two World Cup stops in Canada we will then move down to USA for the annual freestyle bonanza in Deer Valley, with moguls, aerials and dual moguls competitions on February 2-4.

After Deer Valley the World Cup tour will travel back to Europe, stopping in at Italy’s Chiesa in Valmalenco on February 11 for the final dual moguls competition before we head to the big show at the 2023 World Championships in Bakuriani (GEO).

The WSC programme features the aerials mixed team competition on February 19, with aerials individual qualifications coming up on February 21 and the finals following the day after on February 22. Moguls competition will go down on February 25, with dual moguls taking place the next day on February 26.

Following the pinnacle event of the season in Georgia, the tour will then move to Switzerland’s Engadin, which will see the first aerials World Cup competition on Swiss soil since 2008 on March 5.

Finally the FIS Freestyle Ski World Cup tour will come to a close in the middle of March in Kazakhstan as we’re set return to the 2021 World Championships venue at Almaty’s Shymbulak resort. Moguls and dual moguls competitions are scheduled for March 17-18 with aerials and aerial mixed team competitions right after on March 19-20.

Full World Cup calendar can be found HERE.

Furthermore the moguls & aerials season will see plenty of action at the European Cup and Nor-Am Cup, with numerous FIS level events also scheduled along the way.

Last but no least, the FIS Junior World Championships will take place in Airolo (SUI) on March 20-26.